Art Institute of Chicago
The Bathers
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)LinkedCulture matchlcp-84594e346d8b
- Date
- 1899-1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 45240
Paul Cezanne set this idyllic view of a group of bathers in a frame of foliage. He rendered the ground, water, trees, and sky with patches of hatching that seem to register the energy he felt when painting. His primary concern, however, seems to have been striking a balance between the vigor of the bodies and the restfulness of the setting through individual poses and figure groupings—some invented, some likely derived from his other works depicting this subject. Over the course of his career, Cezanne frequently revisited groups of bathers in nature. Through his multiple studies of the subject, he reconceived the classical motif of nudes outdoors in a modern style.
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- Credit line
- Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris. Jacques Zoubaloff (1876–1941), Paris, between 1918–1922; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June16–17, 1927, lot 113 (ill.). Jos. Hessel, Paris [according to Rewald 1996]. Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York, 1928 [New York 1928]. Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago [Chicago 1933]. Mrs. Robert R. McCormick (Amy Irwin McCormick; 1872–1939), Chicago, by 1929 [see Chicago 1929 exhibition materials, Archives of American Art, copy in curatorial file]; By descent to her husband, Colonel Robert R. McCormick (1880–1955), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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